Please join me in congratulating Sheldon Wolin for winnning the 2008 Lannan Notable Book Award for his recent book DEMOCRACY INCORPORATED: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism.  This is a very prestigious and well-deserved award given to Sheldon for his original scholarship and exceptional writing.  You can read more about the Lannan awards and the Lannan Foundation in general here.